Happy St. Patrick’s Day! You know the motto: It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Eat Corned Beef Responsibly (Drink Egregiously)
Personally, I’m good with just corned beef, stone-ground mustard on a bread roll, but here are ten choice looking corned beef sandwiches to get you in the spirit.
Taking this opportunity to wish everyone good tidings, and comfort and all that jazz. Hear one of my favorite Christmas tunes from the Kinks below, but first…
For the young and impressionable and those looking to write among you, wanted to announce that I’m looking to add contributors to Steady Burn in the new year. Even wrote up a fancy job description for it:
Position: Steady Burn Contributing Blogger
Requirements: Cursory knowledge of the English, and the ability to quasi-piece its wordage into sentences, w/o pissing people off too hard; good writing skills. Additionally, should have a strong knowledge of social media, particularly how to navigate and promote content using social news sites (Digg, Reddit, Stumble Upon, etc.). Additionally, moderate (…to obsessively heavy) usage of Twitter and Facebook a must. A strong rapport with other sports and entertainment bloggers a plus. Oh, and if you morally or otherwise object to using the WordPress platform, stop reading now.
Responsibilities:Contribute 3-5 blog posts (300-500 words) per week to the site. Topics to vary from sports, pop culture and entertainment, music, film <<< ya know, sh#t people are engrossed by. Writer is responsible for researching and developing their own posts – there will be no assignments whatsoever. Person will also be expected to share and syndicate their own content via their social networks.
Compensation: A share of the proceeds from ad revenue (I’m not joking)
About the Website:
SteadyBurn is a site dedicated to sports, pop culture and rock n’ roll. I started SteadyBurn in late 2007 as a personal blogspot sports blog, and it has since grown into a visible entity in different sports and entertainment social media communities online. Initially focused on fringe sports culture (roller derby, kickball, etc.), in recent times, we’ve grown to encompass a wider range of topics – pop culture, web culture/social media, entertainment, music, bacon, white collar boxing, etc.
SteadyBurn has been linked to by leading online websites including SI.com, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Music, ESPN.com, USAtoday.com, as well as sourced in traditional media outlets (Arkansas Press-Democrat, Chicago Tribune).
I’ve worked vigilantly the past 18-months to increase the visibility of the site, and am interested in working with enthusiast individuals who want to help continue to do so through helping to generate more content on SteadyBurn.
Apply:If you want this, if you really want this, you call me on Monday and we’ll talk…ok, email me and we’ll talk: mikeehayes@gmail.com
On applying, if I know you or you’re referred by a close confidant, you won’t actually have to apply (like this gentleman). Just email me that you want in, and it will be made so.
In the Holiday hierarchy, I put Fourth of July at a strong #5 (after Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Years Eve and Bulletproof Saturday). It’s a very solid holiday. The three best things about Independence Day in reverse order…
3.) Coolers of Domestic Canned Brews
2.) Freedoms, F#ck yeah
1.) Copious amount of hot dogs, Double F#ck yeah
Fireworks are overrated. In honor of the official wiener holiday, I feel compelled to recognize the athletes that bring showmanship to that upper echelon of arrogance known as hot doggin’ here are your top five in no particular order:
Deion Sanders
Chad Johnson, Steve Smith, his former-teammate and brother in hot doggin’ Michael Irvin, they could all make a case for being the biggest NFL hotdog. In my opinion, Deion was the original and no one did it better.
Deion raises you the “Deion Sanders Hot Dog Express,” Chad.
Ricky Davis
Deion is a great example of why hot doggin’ is not necessarily detrimental to one’s performance. Ricky Davis, is not. He’s basically Wesley Snipes in White Men Can’t Jump playing against better guys. Also, Reggie Miller is my runner-up for basketball hot-doggin’.
Manny Ramirez
Not as much of a cautionary tale of hot doggin’ it as Davis, but pretty damn close. Manny invented and constantly toes the line between hot doggin’ and foolishness. Interested to see if he keeps it up when he makes it back from suspension jail purgatory.
Alexander Ovechkin
The guy scored 52 goals in his rookie season. Plus, Wale made him the first hockey player to be mentioned in a rap song (Do it for the capital, Wale Ovechkin). He can start breakdancing after goals if he wants, if you ask me.
Ronaldo
Kind of a darkhorse for the top five, Ronaldo is actually a hot dog tandem threat.
Hot dog showman on the pitch…
Nice eventual pass out of the box, Fancy Feet.
And hot dog…connoisseur, shovel, black hole. Double points for being a fatty fat fat.
Honorable Mention:
Kobayashi, just because the guy’s sport could be called hot-doggin’. He is probably gonna be like “dude, really?” once he realizes he didn’t make the top five. I personally find his performances to be cerebral at best.
